Template help needed

[Steve Messer]

I do this over and over and I can't figure out how to make this function into a template.

void CleanUpVector()
{
    std::vector::iterator iter;
 
    for (iter = vMusic.begin(); iter != vMusic.end(); ++iter)
    {
	delete *iter;		
    }
    vMusic.clear();
}


struct TAG 
{
    string TrackNumber;
    string Title;
    string Artist;
    string Genre;
    string Year;
    string Comment;
    string Album;
    string PersistsAs;
};

struct Music_Item
{
    HSTREAM Stream;
    TAG     Tag;
};

Any ideas anyone? I can't figure this out.

[Andrew Walker]

You really don't want to be doing this - it's asking for trouble. You'd be much better using something like boost::shared_ptr in the vector rather than raw pointers - then, if required you can pass custom deleters into the function. Below is an example of a template function which does what you requested. Depending on usage the call to clear() may be redundant, or may not do what you expected.template<class T> void cleaner(std::vector<T>& v) { typedef typename std::vector<T>::iterator iter; iter cur(v.begin()); iter end(v.end()); for(; cur != end; ++cur) { delete (*cur); } v.clear(); }

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EDIT: fixed typo

[Steve Messer]

Thanks that worked great. This is the part I couldn't figure out. typedef typename std::vector::iterator iter; iter cur(v.begin()); iter end(v.end());